Lars Cornelissen

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 572 citations indexed

About

Lars Cornelissen is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lars Cornelissen has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 572 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Lars Cornelissen's work include Political Economy and Marxism (5 papers), Economic Theory and Institutions (3 papers) and Social Policy and Reform Studies (2 papers). Lars Cornelissen is often cited by papers focused on Political Economy and Marxism (5 papers), Economic Theory and Institutions (3 papers) and Social Policy and Reform Studies (2 papers). Lars Cornelissen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Mexico. Lars Cornelissen's co-authors include and has published in prestigious journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Teaching in Higher Education and Constellations.

In The Last Decade

Lars Cornelissen

14 papers receiving 481 citations

Hit Papers

Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism’s stealth revolution 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400 500
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism’s stealth revolution
    2015 518 citations Lars Cornelissen Contemporary Political Theory profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lars Cornelissen United Kingdom 5 236 155 80 34 33 18 572
John Michael Roberts United Kingdom 15 343 1.5× 95 0.6× 56 0.7× 37 1.1× 44 1.3× 54 568
Jeremy Gilbert United Kingdom 13 251 1.1× 113 0.7× 46 0.6× 40 1.2× 82 2.5× 35 523
Arundhati Roy India 10 246 1.0× 134 0.9× 48 0.6× 16 0.5× 27 0.8× 25 499
Lawrin Armstrong Canada 5 224 0.9× 123 0.8× 61 0.8× 25 0.7× 18 0.5× 11 417
John Schwarzmantel United Kingdom 10 328 1.4× 214 1.4× 75 0.9× 47 1.4× 48 1.5× 27 617
Peter Seybold United States 10 168 0.7× 141 0.9× 79 1.0× 19 0.6× 23 0.7× 17 420
Gregory Elliott 5 310 1.3× 195 1.3× 58 0.7× 96 2.8× 49 1.5× 6 608
Stephen Eric Bronner Netherlands 9 247 1.0× 108 0.7× 60 0.8× 15 0.4× 26 0.8× 43 446
Stevphen Shukaitis United Kingdom 8 220 0.9× 62 0.4× 42 0.5× 28 0.8× 15 0.5× 26 408
Manuela Boatcă Germany 12 356 1.5× 184 1.2× 34 0.4× 10 0.3× 37 1.1× 62 539

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Cornelissen, Lars, et al.. (2025). A neutral toolkit? For a fundamental critique of constructive alignment. Teaching in Higher Education. 30(7). 1687–1702. 1 indexed citations
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Cornelissen, Lars. (2025). Neoliberalism and Its Hegemonic Crisis. Modern Intellectual History. 1–1. 1 indexed citations
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Cornelissen, Lars. (2025). Neoliberalism and Race. Stanford University Press eBooks.
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Cornelissen, Lars, et al.. (2025). Between neoliberalism and fascism: Louis Rougier, race, and the ends of neoliberal ideology. Distinktion Journal of Social Theory. 27(1). 7–28.
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Cornelissen, Lars. (2024). Why anti-neoliberalism means anti-racism. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 48(3). 571–578. 1 indexed citations
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Cornelissen, Lars. (2023). Neoliberal imperialism. Politics. 45(2). 185–201. 5 indexed citations
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Cornelissen, Lars. (2021). Elements of neoliberal Euroscepticism: how neoliberal intellectuals came to support Brexit. British Politics. 17(1). 44–61. 4 indexed citations
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Cornelissen, Lars. (2020). ‘There Can Be No Room for a Sovereign Body’: The Philosophical Roots of F.A. Hayek’s Hostility to Democracy. History of Political Thought. 41. 648–668. 1 indexed citations
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Cornelissen, Lars. (2020). Neoliberalism and the racialized critique of democracy. Constellations. 27(3). 348–360. 9 indexed citations
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Cornelissen, Lars. (2019). We, the Peoples: Populist Leadership, Neoliberalism and Decoloniality. Araucaria. 529–552. 1 indexed citations
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Cornelissen, Lars. (2019). On the (ab)use of the term ‘neoliberalism’: Reflections on Dutch political discourse. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 19. 487–512. 1 indexed citations
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Cornelissen, Lars. (2018). What is political rationality. 2 indexed citations
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Cornelissen, Lars. (2018). On the subject of neoliberalism: Rethinking resistance in the critique of neoliberal rationality. Constellations. 25(1). 133–146. 5 indexed citations
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Cornelissen, Lars. (2017). The Secularization of Providential Order: F. A. Hayek's Political-Economic Theology. Political Theology. 18(8). 660–676. 4 indexed citations
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Cornelissen, Lars. (2017). ‘How can the people be restricted?’: the Mont Pèlerin Society and the problem of democracy, 1947–1998. History of European Ideas. 43(5). 507–524. 16 indexed citations
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Cornelissen, Lars. (2015). Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism’s stealth revolution. Contemporary Political Theory. 15(2). e11–e14. 518 indexed citations breakdown →

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